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Medical Errors and Patient Safety - Strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety (Hardcover)
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Medical Errors and Patient Safety - Strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patient safety (Hardcover)
Series: Patient Safety
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Is the reporting of medical errors changing? This book shows with
real cases from health care and beyond that most errors come from
flaws in the system. It also shows why they don't get reported and
how medical error disclosure around the world is shifting away from
blaming people, to a "no-fault" model that seeks to improve the
whole system of care. The book intends to provide an introduction
to medical errors that result in preventable adverse events. It
will examine issues that stymie efforts made to reduce preventable
adverse events and medical errors, and will moreover highlight
their impact on clinical laboratories and other areas, including
educational, bioethical, and regulatory issues. Varying error rates
of 0.1-9.3% in clinical diagnostic laboratories have been reported
in the literature. While it is suggested that fewer errors occur in
the laboratory than in other hospital settings, the quantum of
laboratory tests used in healthcare entails that even a small error
rate may reflect a large number of errors. The interdependence of
surgical specialties, emergency rooms, and intensive care units -
all of which are prone to higher rates of medical errors - with
clinical diagnostic laboratories entails that reducing error rates
in laboratories is essential to ensuring patient safety in other
critical areas of healthcare. The author maintains that many such
errors are preventable provided that appropriate attention is paid
to systemic factors involved in laboratory errors. This book
identifies possible intelligent system approaches that can be
adopted to help control and eliminate these errors. It is a
valuable tool for physicians, clinical biochemists, research
scientists, laboratory technologists and anyone interested in
reducing adverse events at all levels of healthcare processes.
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